Persistent Prayer in Action

One of National Community Church's core values is, "Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you". I love trying to combine both pray and work into one element. I believe that this one element is a persistent prayer in action.

A persistent prayer can be learned from the persistent widow in the parable. Luke 18, Jesus said, "they ought always to pray and not lose heart." Then he tells us a story about her, "there was a widow in that certain city, where a judge fears neither God nor respectful man, who came to the judge, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' Yet because she keep bothering the same judge, he gave her justice." If the unjustice judge gave her justice, then how much more will our God give justice to His elected? And how much more will a justice judge gives you justice?

In reality, getting the justice may not be that easy. Even though some of us may be persistent in asking. Only few of us would stay in one place, asking the same person the same request like the persistent widow. Most of us would ask different persons with the same request or ask the same person with different requests.

This persistence widow walked like it depends on her and asked like it depends on the Judge.